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From the Center: Ceramic Art and Patronage In India

Kristine MichaelNew Delhi, 2010 From the ancient world onward, patronage of the arts was important in art history. From pre-modern Medieval and Renaissance Europe, as well as feudal Japan, Southeast Asia and elsewhere art patronage tended to arise wherever a royal or religious system and aristocracy dominated a society and controlled resources.Patrons operated as sponsors […]

Article on Jyotsna Bhatt in The Mumbai Mirror

Rekha Rodwittiya Jyotsna Bhatt was born in 1940 in Mandvi, Kutch. During her adolescence, she was encouraged by her uncle Kantisen shroff to pursue art and enrolled to study sculpture under the tutelage of Prof. Sankho Chaudhuri at the faculty of Fine Arts at Baroda’s MS University in 1958. Her exposure to ceramics as a […]

From the Center: Of Creativity in the Clay of India

Trupti PatelMeru, Vadodara, 2010 Clay is a basic material, universally dug up and used in all cultures all over the world. It is so various and adantable that each culture and each succeeding generation finds in it a new means of expression. Countless cenerations of potters all over the world have bequeathed to us its […]